Windows NT 4.0 PowerPC

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Windows NT 4.0 PowerPC

I was doing some research on Windows NT 4.0 and noticed the system requirements for it. It stated that it could run on either an x86 based CPU, RISC CPU, or a PowerPC CPU. Windows NT 4.0 is outdated, and I do not intend to use it as my main OS, but I was curious if anyone on this forum has ever run Windows NT 4.0 Workstation on a PowerPC based Macintosh without VirtualPC or any virtual program. If so, could you please explain how it operates on PowerPC. I know that Microsoft discontinued Windows NT 4.0 for PowerPC when Windows NT 5.0 (2000) was released.

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20" iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.5), intel iMac specs: 250GB HD, 128 MB ATI X1600, 2 GB DDR2

Posted on Nov 16, 2008 9:52 PM

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Bobby T. Author

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Jul 11, 2009 5:20 PM in response to Bobby T.

I recently tried installing Windows NT 4.0 on my iMac G3. It does NOT install. I did some more research and discovered that Windows NT 4.0 requires an IBM PowerPC computer and is not really designed to work on Apple hardware. So, IBM computers with PowerPC processors are likely supported, whereas Apple computers with PowerPC processors are probably not supported.

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